Media Watchdog Asks FCC to Probe Paramount’s Diversity Programs

The Paramount Global headquarters in New York.

Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg

The Center for American Rights, a nonprofit that has filed a number of complaints about media companies to regulators, asked the Federal Communications Commission to examine diversity efforts at Paramount Global as part of a larger review of such programs.

Quotas for participation by people of color in reality TV shows may violate legal standards, the center’s president, Daniel Suhr, wrote in a Wednesday letter to the commission.